In my limited testing, 25 seconds is just too long. I don't want to use call screening. I just want the calls to ring through to my home, my cell phone, and my office phone. My answering machine, cell phone voice mail, and office voice mail all pick-up before Google voice mail.
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen of 1789 brought together two streams of thought: one springing from the Anglo-American tradition of legal and constitutional guarantees of individual liberties, the other from the Enlightenment's belief that reason should guide all human affairs.
Locke wrote that all individuals are equal in the sense that they are born with certain inalienable natural rights. That is, rights that are God-given and can never be taken or even given away. Among these fundamental natural rights, Locke said, are life, liberty, and property.. Locke believed that the most basic human law of nature is the preservation of mankind. To serve that purpose, he reasoned, individuals have both a right and a duty to preserve their own lives.